Tring Athletic Football Club are an
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football club based in
Tring
Tring is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Dacorum, Hertfordshire, England. It is situated in a gap passing through the Chiltern Hills, classed as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, from Central London. Tring is linked to ...
,
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...
. The club are currently members of the and play at the Grass Roots Stadium.
History
Tring Athletic Youth FC were established in March 1958, when the founders contributed towards the purchase of of land at Miswell Lane.
[History]
Tring Athletic FC The club joined the West Herts Saturday League in the early 1960s, and despite only fielding players under-21, they won the Division One title three times in five years.
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Following a spell without success, the age limit was scrapped in 1971 and the club was renamed Tring Athletic. In the mid-1970s the ground was sold to the local council and the club were relegated to Division Three. However, by the mid-1980s they were back in the Premier Division.][
In 1988 the club joined Division One of the ]South Midlands League
The South Midlands League was a association football, football league covering Bedfordshire and some adjoining counties in England. It was founded in 1922 as the Bedfordshire County League and merged with the Spartan League in 1997 to form the ...
.[ they won the league in 1999–00.][ In the same season they also won the Herts Charity Shield, the Herts Senior Centenary Trophy and the Cherry Red Books Trophy.
Due to an inability to install floodlights at Miswell Lane, in 2003 the club absorbed ]Isthmian League
The Isthmian League () is a regional men's football league covering Greater London, East and South East England, featuring mostly semi-professional clubs.
Founded in 1905 by amateur clubs in the London area, the league now consists of 82 tea ...
neighbours Tring Town F.C. with an agreement to move to their Pendley ground, which already had floodlights. In 2003–04 they finished fourth in Division One and were promoted to the Premier Division.
Players
First-team squad
Honours
*Spartan South Midlands League
**Senior Division champions 1999–2000
**Challenge Trophy winners 2008–09
**Premier Division Cup winners 2008–09, 2021–2022
**St Marys Cup winners 1996–97, 1998–99, 2004–05, 2008–09
**Division One Cup winners 1998–99, 2002–03
**Cherry Red Books Trophy winners 1999–2000, 2000–01
*West Herts League
**Division One champions 1961–62, 1964–65, 1965–66
**Challenge Cup winners 1965–66
*Herts Charity Shield
**Winners 1999–2000, 2001–02, 2007–08
*Herts Senior Centenary Trophy
**Winners 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03
References
External links
Club website
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Football clubs in England
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Association football clubs established in 1958
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Football clubs in Hertfordshire
1958 establishments in England
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